Thursday, March 19

Citizen of [City] Faction:First you have to chose a city to which to swear allegiance. You can do this for multiple cities if you so wish, but onyl one at a time. You then go see the faction NPC of this city and after a little speech he will give you a diplomacy necklace (if you have a diplomacy bag it will appear inside the bag where you might not know to look if you didn't do much Diplomacy), that will enable you to receive "coins" while you kill mobs all around the world as long as you wear it. A little flag will show at your buffs to portray this.

There are 2 types of coins :

The faction ones : copper, silver and gold

The paying ones : platinum and ancient platinum

The faction coins (copper, silver and gold coins) can be turned in to the NPC for respectively 2, 10 and 100 faction points. It will enable you to climb in the citizen of XXX faction this way unlocking various quests at the faction armor NPC that will enable you to get the faction armors or mounts.

The platinum coins are used to buy molds which are used to complete the faction armor quests.You can exchange the ancient platinum coins for platinum coins of the city you work for.I haven't found confirmation yet that 10 Gold faction Coins can be exchanged for 1 Platinum but here's hoping.

An example :To get the breastplate you need around 11k faction (I don't know exactly) so you need to turn in copper, silver and gold coins until you get to 11k faction with the citizens of the city then you receive a quest at the faction armor NPC that will ask you for 4 molds. Then you buy 4 molds to the same NPC using 10 platinum for each mod. And you can turn in the quest and get your breastplate.

How do you get coins :By killing mobs of you level range or by doing quests.- Copper, silver and gold coins can only be found while killing normal mobs, they sometimes appear in your inventory.- Platinum coins can be founds by killing CAPS nameds (like Queen Vixxaeva for example).- Ancient platinum coins are found by killing CAPS nameds in APW or by doing the season quests (like halloween ones).

You can also get ancient coins by crafting (exchange 1 silver sigil for 1 coin) with unknown droprate, or diplomacy (120 hearsay, 80 rumor or 40 evidence, all t5)To exchange these, visit a "Masterwork Crafter" which can be found in New Targonor, Ahgram and one other place.

Mobs known to drop coins:

As copper, silver and gold coins only drop from mobs that give you experience as well, it's not possible to go and farm low-levelled Plat-droppers.LEVELS 0-19:

7 comments:

I don't mind going on a raid once a month for the fun, but if I need loads of platinum for my city armor I think I'll pass on that. But it looks like we really need Geek to join us! Com on EG, you know you want to.

Raiding? I'm not that anxious to be one of 20 people waiting and anxiously listening to thee 4 people actually having fun directing the enterprise over Ventrillo...

Luckily for me the Ancient Platinum Coin is a different animal from the Platinum Coin that happens to be interchangeable. I don't have a clue about drop-rates in Raids, but I suspect 4 raids doesn't mean 4 Coins. Need to check if they're soulbound upon drop. Might be interesting if they aren't, and a prime Livegamer product...

We do need Geek, for many reasons. Come on Pete, shall I pay your first month sub as your trial account is probably expired now?

I am not talking about the 24 mega raids. But taking out any 4, 5 or 6 dot requires a larger team. And it is quite fun to do with 5 or 6 relaxed non ventrillo players. I know they are out there in plenty. Well not plenty, but enough it might even happen once in a while. But perhaps not enough to get all the needed coin for the gear.

I logged back into Vanguard tonight, I created a new toon, this time I went with the mesmer class (Psion....?), I dunno Vanguard doesn't grab me for some reason, thought it might have been the class I was playing, everything feels kinda awkward, I think my trial ends at the beginning of next week, I'll login again before it ends and hopefully hook up with you 2 for some group action :)

I know the feeling. Some games just don't do it. But I think in this case you might have made the bad start. Since I think it is really such a great indepth game. But I will not try to force you to enjoy it :)

Having said that, when will you be online the cmoning days so that we can have some group action?

Oh, and you really, really need to try out the crafting and diplomacy. They both add so much to the game. Just to get a taste.

Good to hear from you again Geek!Actually, it might be the class, or that most caster classes don't get into their own until somewhere into their teens.Phè can tell, she brought a caster actually past level 10 and I never could. I liked the Druid, but rerolled her to become a Cleric to assist Phè and Apoletta who'd both become melee types.

You might want to look at Bloodmage. It's healer really, but until end game content you can double as a DPS too. Hope to see you sometime today or tomorrow. Got late shift on Sunday and Monday and after that, well I'd have to peek in on AoC again to see you :-/